DOIT FACULTY & CURRICULUM

The School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has an excellent MLIS program accredited by the American Library Association.

FACULTY
The SOIS faculty consists of highly productive and well-respected scholars in the field. According to an article published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Meho and Spurgin, 2005, v. 56, no.12), recent studies consistently ranked the SOIS faculty among the top 10 most productive LIS schools. Visit the SOIS faculty pages for the expertise and achievements of individual faculty members.

Faculty in OI Concentration:

Dr. Hope A. Olson
Dr. Hur-Li Lee
Mr. Steven J. Miller

Other faculty teaching relevant courses

Dr. Wooseob Jeong - XML for Libraries
Dr. Jin Zhang - Library Automation
Ms. Amy Cooper Cary - Arrangement and Description in Archives
Mr. Dennis L. Larsen - Information and Records Management, Electronic Records Management

CURRICULUM
See the SOIS web site for the description of the entire curriculum.

Current Courses in the Organization of Information Concentration

• The Organization of Information (required)
• Indexing and Abstracting
• Cataloging and Classification
• Metadata
• Information and Records Management
• Electronic Records Management
• XML for Libraries
• Library Automation
• Arrangement and Description in Archives
• Topics in Information Organization (e.g., Cross-Cultural Issues in Organization of Information, Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources)

New Courses in Development

• Access Points and Collocation
• Information Architecture and Networked Information Organization Systems